Daniel Conrad

3 days ago | courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Justice and Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed a joint motion in federal court to terminate a federal consent decree that had the federal government overseeing the Albuquerque Police Department for the last decade. The decree was put in place in response to the police force’s high rate of unconstitutional excessive force incidents.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — Mike Jeffries, the former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO who was indicted for allegedly inducing young men to perform sex acts at his parties ostensibly in exchange for modeling opportunities, has been found incompetent to stand trial. Prosecutors did not challenge the motion to find him incompetent, though Jeffries will be held in custodial hospitalization for up to four months to determine if it’s possible that he might regain capacity in the foreseeable future.

2 weeks ago | courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court reversed two men’s murder convictions and ordered a new trial connected to a drive-by shooting. The trial court erred in excluding the testimony of an eyewitness, who would have said he saw another person commit the crime, “for the sole reason that the defense had not specifically listed his name and address on the defense witness list.” The exclusion deprived the defendants of their right to defend themselves.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad

PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit upheld the sex trafficking conviction and sentence of a man who identified himself as “Captain Save-A-Hoe” to FBI agents who were investigating him for picking up two runaway teen girls and forcing them to have sex with him and others for money and shelter. He voluntarily went to a police to “clear his name” by writing a false statement, and recorded messages intended as blackmail in case the kids he had trafficked didn't “keep quiet” to law enforcement.

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Daniel Conrad

DENVER — A Colorado jury ruled in favor of a family whose two children were injured during a townhouse fire — their mother pushed them out of a second-story window before jumping to safety herself — but state’s appellate court reversed the judgment. The trial court erred by instructing the jury on an earlier version of the fire safety ordinance than the one that was in effect at the time the children were injured.